Postpartum Depression and Self-Help Books: Medicalizing Misery and Motherhood
Motherhood is an ideal that is ostensibly valued and rewarded in American culture. It is no wonder, then, that a disease which threatens a woman’s ability to adequately fulfill her motherly duties receives a great deal of attention. My study aims to explore how ideas about postpartum depression (PPD...
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2009
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_theses/25 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1024&context=sociology_theses |